A non-profit organization dedicated to the eradication of all student loan debt through activism, education, and legislation;
because student loan debt is dangerous to the US economy and to the health and well-being of individual Americans and their families.
CRYN JOHANNSEN, Founder & Executive Director

Thursday, April 22, 2010

It's sexist to say this, but, yeah, it's hysterical

We are, after all, talking about the hopefully soon to be anachronistic, matronly Sallie Mae, so calling this piece of evidence hysterical (a la Freud) is pretty befitting.

A reader let me know that Sallie Mae, or, as one State Support Leader derisively calls her (you know who you are!), "Queen Bee Sallie Mae," had sent them of all people (ha!) the following request for feedback:

Dear Forever-Indentured-Servant-And-Duped-Educated-Person,

Sallie Mae® is committed to continuously improving its products and services to serve you better and would greatly appreciate your feedback.

We are hoping to receive your feedback on how you feel about entrusting your student loans to Sallie Mae. By completing the very brief survey below, you will contribute to the improvement of our products and services. Your opinion counts – please help us enhance our ability to understand and serve you more effectively in the future.

Thank you for your time. We are thrilled to have your business and are committed to providing you services, benefits, and advice you can't find anywhere else.

Sincerely,

Sallie Mae Customer Care Team

Ha. Hahahahahahah. Ahem. Excuse. I'm sorry, I'd forgotten something. I didn't realize, they do care about their customers, right? This Queen Bee cares? Does she really? Sorry, Queen Bee, I don't think so. I guess I am committing treason, but what do I have to lose now, right?

Here's what I declare, along with the Indentured Educated Class: we will make your name, along with Nelnet (et al.), as infamous as the tobacco companies' names. No one on the Hill will be willing to take your filthy money - not if I have anything to do with it. You, Queen Bee, will be some day, God Willing, a pariah even on Capitol Hill - your crown stripped from you. That's when we will have triumphed.

Warning: Queen Bee Sallie Mae Is Still Watching Over Several Beehives.

8 comments:

Hehehehe this is funny. You know something is up with salliemae when they ask to take over all your loans. I remember a couple years ago I tried that and they denied me because they stopped due to the economy going under

Because I don't buy that, TormentorSioux. What if Martin Luther King just accepted his own world of injustice? Or women said, "oh, well, they're right. We do belong in the kitchen." Well, that's not what those people did. They fought for the rights of others, and it's sad that people like you think in such narrow-minded ways.

Cryn Johannsen

Cryn Johannsen, Founder and Executive Director of All Education Matters, Inc., is the author Solving the Student Loan Crisis: Dreams, Diplomas, and a Lifetime of Debt(New Insights Press, 2016; available now on Amazon inpaperback andKindle).

She has spent many years in academic environments, giving her an insider's understanding of the varying forms of educational institutions and how they function. Ms. Johannsen worked for an academic publishing company, but now advocates for individuals who are struggling or unable to pay off their student loan debt on Capitol Hill.

In addition to her previous employment, Ms. Johannsen has been a student at multiple levels at multiple institutions, beginning at a community college, graduating with honors from the University of Kansas, and receiving MAs from both the University of Chicago and Brown University (where she also participated in an exchange scholar program with Harvard). She is an experienced researcher and instructor, and has focused her own education on the study of History and the Social Sciences.

Ms. Johannsen is available to give talks and do workshops on this critical topic.

Ms. Johannsen's book has been reviewed by the New York Review of Books in Rana Foroohar's article "How the Financing of May Lead to Leader." In addition, intellectuals, such as Henry Giroux and Andrew Ross endorsed it.

This blog, All Education Matters, will be digitally archived by the Library of Congress in November of 2017.

About me

Author of Solving the Student Loan Crisis: Dreams, Diplomas & a Lifetime of Debt (New Insights Press) - now available at Amazon in paperback and Kindle.
Founder and Executive Director of All Education Matters(AEM), a 501(c)(4); I am a freelance journalist for The Huffington Post, The Loop 21, and Hypervocal. My work has appeared in USA Today, Truthout.org, The New England Journal of Higher Education, etc.
Recipient of journalism grant from the Economic Hardship and Reporting Project (EHRP) to cover a story about suicides and student loan debt (published by the Huffington Post and on the EHRP site; edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Garvy Rivlin) - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/c-cryn-johannsen/student-loan-debt-suicides_b_1638972.html